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Thirteen Steam Features You Probably Don't Know About
Like the thousands upon thousands of games it hosts, Steam has secrets.Steam is, on one hand, a bril...
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Precursors to Today's Technology: These Products Had the Right Vision
Products like the Apple Newton and the Nintendo Power Glove immediately come to mind when reminiscin...
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Culture Smash: The State of PC Gaming in Japan
Cold rain drizzles outside. Inside, everything is pink, round, and frilly. The first floor of this o...
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Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and Playback
For years, H.264 has been the go-to video compression standard. Whenever you download a film or TV s...
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What Ever Happened to Winamp?
Recently I had a friend over to whom I offered to audition my DIY PC speaker system. The first thing...
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Assembling a DIY PC Speaker System
I was bitten by the audiophile bug at a relatively young age. When I was in my early teens, my paren...
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Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing, Explained
Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games lo...
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Bad Idea, Part 1: Expensive DDR4 Memory
The past twelve months turned out to be some of the most exciting times we can remember for building...
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Best Value FreeSync Monitors for GeForce Owners
Ever since Nvidia opened up support for adaptive sync monitors on GeForce GPUs, we've been receiving...
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The Dark Web: Exploring the Hidden Internet
In the realm of the Internet, few things carry as infamous a reputation as the Dark Web. Widely util...
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Are We Reaching GPU Normalcy? The Answer is (Almost) Yes
It's time for another look at graphics card pricing and this month it's particularly exciting as we...